Pages

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Dystopia 2012

What It’s All About

The Dystopia challenge is for those who love it and for those who have never tried it. From negative utopia to plain ol’ totalitarian, there’s much to love about Dystopia and many ways it can be written.
If you’re not sure what it is check out Diva Schuylers’s post and learn all about it, but for a quick run down think of unpleasant living situations, pure dystopia being when an entity or social force is involved, but you can think outside the circle with this one.
Here’s one of our Must Reads lists for some inspiration.

The Deets

Running Dates: 1st of January – 31st of December 2012

When Can I Sign Up: All the way up to the last two weeks of December 2012!

Mr Linky: To use the Mr Linky you’ll need to click on the graphic then enter your link. These will be updated and posted into this page every couple of weeks or so.

Further Details: Crossover challenges are fine, you can change levels at any time, this is eBook, short story, and graphic novel friendly, and you don’t need a blog to join in (read further for details).

The How To

Choose Your Level: These are listed further down and you can change levels at any time.

Grab The Badge: Place it somewhere on your blog, profile, or in a signature where possible and link back (main page or this page, it’s up to you).

Sign Up Post: Create a post on your blog, in a group, or on a forum (only if allowed) to let others see what you’re aiming for (a predefined list of books is optional).

Blogless? Don’t worry, you can sign up with your social network profile (YouTube,Twitter, GoodReads, Shelfari included), just make sure you link to your review list, shelf, tweet, or category. If you don’t have any of those feel free to comment!

Afterwards

Your Reviews: Reviewing is optional! But if you do review we’d love for you to share them by submitting them on the Review Page

Finished: When you’re done it’s completion post time and you can share these on the Completion Post page.

Challenge Levels

Asocial– Choose 5 books to read

Contagion – Choose 15 books to read

Soldier – Choose 30 books to read

Drone – Choose 50 books to read

Conditioned – Choose 75 books to read

Brainwashed – Choose anywhere between 76-135 books to read

Totalitarian – Choose anywhere between 136-200 books to read

Extra Challenges

If you feel like that extra kick to your reading challenges here’s several you can choose from.

World:Choose a country as your theme, reading only books from that country or where it’s the setting. For how high you go you can choose more than one country;

Level Asocial to Soldier: Choose one country

Level Soldier to Conditioned: Choose two countries

Level Conditioned to end of Brainwashed: Choose three countries

Level Totalitarian: Choose four countries.

Gender Battle: Read books only by female or male authors. Another alternative is to read equal amounts of both

Herschel Henderson said “I do” to get his hands on his wife’s
money, and he has no intentions of giving up his mistress. He’s okay with
sneaking around-until he’s suddenly suspects his wife is doing it too.

Lexington Lewis vowed for his better and her worse, especially
since he can’t stay out of the sex clubs. He doesn’t understand why he can’t
still make it with other women-until his fun threatens what he values most.

Brian Flaw meant it when he said “till death do us part.”
But although he adores his wife and kids, his insatiable appetite for sex draws
him into a fatal attraction that could cost not only his marriage but his life.

Will their cheating ways finally catch up to them? And what’s
a woman to do once she realizes she’s married to one of these…

SINGLE HUSBANDS

The Review:

This is a fast paced, sexually charged, sexually explicit
novel. The characters in this novel were not likable but their drama and f-ed
up attitudes and actions kept the pages turning. The conclusion was doable but
not necessarily satisfying. I would have like to have known more about how the
wives lives ended up to however, the book (as shown by the title) is about the husbands.

This book surprised me. I was just expecting to just read a
story with the typical ending. However, starting right in the introduction
HoneyB poses stimulating question. The main question centered around what
marriage is. That is a good question because I think that most people think
marriage is suppose to be one particular way. Not true, marriages are as
different as the people who are in them.

To know what marriage means to you, you have to know
yourself, then know the type of person you want to be with, and then marry the
type of person who have the same views on marriage that you do. I think that
this is why marriages fail. People try to live up to this one ideal of what
marriage is suppose to be without actually discussing it with the person you
interested in marrying (I must also mention communication is the key in so many
areas in life. You should also discuss how child rearing styles. You don’t want
to marry someone you believe in spanking if you think hitting children is
wrong).

The characters in the book did not discuss what marriage meant
to them with their partners. They are called single husbands because the are
married but when they are out on their own they act like single men. Not just
single men but promiscuous single men. All three were always ready to sleep
with any pretty woman who’s willing to give it up.

Unfortunately, there are men like the men in this book. Men
who think that their cheating is not breaking their marriage vows because no
where in the marriage vows does it state anything about fidelity (faithful and
fidelity is not one in the same). I could go on but I won’t.

So if you can get pass the explicit language, tons of wild
sex scenes, and the homosexuality (none of which I have a problem with) the
message of the book just may open your eyes. What does marriage mean to you?
Are you going on what society tells you marriage should be and look like? Think
about those questions. Talk to significant other about it. And if you are
married, so what, talk about it any way. Just because you are married doesn’t
mean you won’t learn something new about your spouse. People are (or in my
opinion should be) constantly changing, learning, and becoming better versions
of themselves. TBR pile #1 just because
of the state of marriage these days!

About Me

Born in the South, lived in the Northeast, and now living back in the South has created this diversity of culture and interests in me. I love creativity and it shows. I am friendly so leave comments, suggestions, and/or tips.

Upcoming Tours

*

.

FTC

LinkShare

Kobo Inc.

Alibris

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

iTunes

*Please note clicking book covers and text links will send you to one of the above websites. I get a small percentage if you make a purchase from any of the websites mentioned above. However, this in no way influence my book reviews. If I like a book it's because I like it and the same is true if I dislike it.

- Many books on here have been received as an ARC.

**This blog uses third party links. This blog and/or the third party links may use cookies. By clicking any links you acknowledge that you have been informed about the potential use of cookies.